10. Bret Stephens doesn't either. When's the last time he offered an argument that someone else hadn't already made a week earlier?
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11. And the ones who *do* sometimes pull it off aren't always consistent. I liked Kristoff's dispatches from Bahrain during the Arab Spring. But how often does he operate on that level?
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12. A lot of Williamson's articles do meet one or more of those criteria. If the NYT wants to troll everyone & actually improve its page at the same time, it would give him Stephens' job.
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13. But that's what *I* want from opinion writing. And I hold a lot of minority views, so I take it for granted that I'll be constantly reading stuff I disagree with.
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14. Others have different expectations. That's what's clarifying about this recent trend of Center-Woke tweeters protesting because a writer has been hired somewhere. (And about some of the counterprotests too.)
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15. That trend is being construed in some quarters as a war on conservatives. But that's not really right. David Frum's job seems safe.
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16. And of the two people who actually lost jobs to these recent tempests, just one (Williamson) is a right-wing. The other—Quinn Norton—hails from the anarchist left.
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17. The depressing fact is that a lot of people only want to read stuff that doesn't veer very far from what they already agree with. Also depressing: The main alternative model is clickbait that puts more effort into finding a contrarian position than in justifying it.
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18. Most depressing of all: The world's most prominent op-ed platform employs Thomas Friedman.
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19. Anyway, I worked up a dream newspaper op-ed columnist schedule last week. Yes, I know the writers are all dead. Enjoy.https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/979578807425396736 …
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalkerReplying to @MattWelchSUN: Mike Royko, Zora Neale Hurston MON: Jane Jacobs, Ambrose Bierce TUE: Thomas Szasz, Myles na gCopaleen WED: William Burroughs, Ellen Willis THU: J.G. Ballard, Alexander Cockburn FRI: Dwight Macdonald, the young Hunter Thompson SAT: Malcolm X, Mae West7 replies 6 retweets 35 likesShow this thread
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